Why haven’t video game boxes ever gotten much respect? Because most are seriously ugly.
Category: Art & Design
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The Hottest — and Most Hideous — Video Game Box Art Ever – PC World
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photo-eye | Magazine — Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book
Indie Publishing: How to Design & Publish Your Own Book, the newest title edited by Ellen Lupton for Princeton Architectural Press, has already proven to be wildly popular — indeed, it’s already in its second printing, the first sold out almost immediately upon release.
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My Favorite Book Covers of 2008 – The Book Design Review
In no particular order, here are my favorite book covers of 2008. (And here are the 2007, 2006, and 2005 lists.)
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Is Anybody Buying Art These Days? – The Mugrabis Are – NYTimes.com
On Monday, Sept. 15, mere hours after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in New York City, Sotheby’s was throwing open the doors of its London headquarters for the most extravagant sale in the auction house’s history. The sale, of 223 new artworks by Damien Hirst, brought in more than $200 million — nearly 10 times the total receipts of the previous record-holder for a single artist, a 1993 auction of 88 Picassos that reaped around $20 million. It was a level of consumption that, particularly when viewed against the concurrent collapse of the financial-services industry, almost immediately acquired a nostalgic air, the last gasp of the art boom.
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Wooster Collective: Robbie Conal
By Osmosis and Beautiful Decay teamed up to create this terrific short video profiling the prolific Los Angeles based activist/street artist Robbie Conal. Robbie’s work has been prolific in LA for over 25 years…
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AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth
Evan Roth’s new self published book project called, /AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth 2003-2008/ (made entirely in Linux using open source software and fonts).
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Helvetica Bold Oblique Sweeps Fontys
Helvetica Bold Oblique was the big winner at Tuesday’s 73rd Annual Fonty Awards, taking home 11 statues, including those for Best Sans Serif and the highly coveted 2001 Best Font prize.
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SuperTouch » Blog Archive » TOKYO///FIRST LOOK: TIM BISKUP X T9G’S “T X T PROJECT” OPENING NITE AT STITCH GALLERY
Masters of vinyl toydom TIM BISKUP and Tokyo’s T9G teamed up to blow minds of Japanese collectors with their “T x T Project” of collaborative vinyl toys and new paintings from Mr Biskup that opened last weekend at STITCH GALLERY.
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THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE: SHEPARD FAIREY AND THE ART OF APPROPRIATION
As underground art phenomenon SHEPARD FAIREY’s first major museum retrospective prepares to open at the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART/BOSTON on February 6th, we feel the need to address some of the vicious and unfounded rumors surrounding the originality of Shepard’s artwork that have been floated online in recent years. Though written by a variety of different detractors for a questionable array of reasons, the common thread binding them all—aside from a thinly masked veneer of obvious envy in most cases—is a nearly ubiquitous lack of understanding of the artist’s use of appropriated imagery in his work and the longstanding historical precedent for this mode of creative expression.
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MARK RYDEN SIGNS “THE TREE SHOW” BOOK THIS WEEKEND AT MOCA
Worshipers of the formerly ultra-hairy beast known as MARK RYDEN can get their stalk-on up close and personal at MOCA this Saturday between 3—5pm when the reclusive artist will be onsite signing copies of his brand spankin new “The Tree Show” book. For the uninitiated unfamiliar with former Ryden appearances, prepare yourself for an epic line of otaku fanboys and girls all patiently waiting their turn to have the master sign all manner of objects and flesh. In short, it’s the people-watching event of the weekend bar none.
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Marsea Goldberg of New Image Art
Marsea Goldberg is the owner of New Image Art gallery in Los Angeles. For 15 years she has been showing the work of some very notable artists and is an important part of the history of this as-of-yet-unnamed art movement. I met her in 2000 and New Image Art became one of the first galleries I showed at. Over the years I have seen some beautiful shows at her gallery- Swoon, Herbert Baglione, The Date Farmers, Alex Kopps and Ed Templeton come to mind but the list goes on! Here’s to 15 more years!
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Photographer Glen E. Friedman in Conversation (and Collaboration) with Shepard Fairey
Earlier this week, we aired a Boing Boing video episode in which we visited Shepard Fairey’s gallery in LA, and spoke with him about the most well-known of his works, the Obama poster. That episode was shot as another artist’s work was being hung on the walls: legendary punk / hiphop / skate culture photographer Glen E. Friedman. Together, Shepard and Glen were also working on a collaboration together that brings Shep’s visual style together with some of Glen’s most iconic images.
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Thomas Fuchs and Felix Sockwell's 'Deconstructing Dumbo'
illustrator Thomas Fuchs and designer Felix Sockwell have put together 100 iconic mini-tales of a GOP in disarray
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SuperTouch » MIAMI///ART BASEL: DAY ONE IN PICTURES
Despite dire sales predictions, this year’s seventh annual installment of the hedonistic visual extravaganza known as ART BASEL is off to a well-paced, if not running, start with eye-popping offerings from artists like BARRY McGEE, TONY OURSLER, SHEPARD FAIREY, SWOON, OS GEMEOS, KARA WALKER, BASQUIAT, KEHINDE WILEY, and FENG ZHENGJIE, to name a few, around every turn.
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poster public project on the Behance Network
22% of people read the text on street posters like this one. 28% – try to read, and without having understood any sense of it, go further. The rest don’t pay it attention. But what if the secret of happiness has been written here?
